Chapter 222

Mary chuckled softly, her laughter echoing in the quiet room before she quickly resumed her stern facade. “You brat!”

Curtis glanced at Leanne, looking for any sign of intention towards him, but found none. So, he took matters into his own hands and grabbed the gift bag she had brought.

It was empty. Nothing left.

He looked up at Leanne, searching her face for any sign of guilt, but she appeared completely at ease, not a hint of remorse in sight.

Feeling somewhat left out, especially after noticing Phillip flaunting a Montblanc pen – not that it was anything special, but still, he didn’t have one Curtis felt a sourness in his mouth as if he had just bitten into a fresh lemon.

Ungrateful girl. And after all he does for her.

“Nice. How did you know I needed a bag,” he said, holding the empty paper bag with an air of satisfaction.

Leanne was rendered speechless by his comment.

In the odd, quiet of the room, Jennifer rubbed her forehead, feeling a headache coming

  1. pressure monitor, was tempted to check his levels

    and there.

    longer, cleared his throat. “How about we

    dinner?”

    servants had already laid out a

    dining room, suggesting, “Maybe you should take off your scarf. It’ll be easier

    put it back on me after

    to sit next to Curtis when Mary pulled her aside.

    seat at the head of the table to Maddox and sat on the side, pulling Leanne to sit next to her. This

    sit over there,” Leanne

    seat,” Jennifer was too tired to argue with

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    sat down, puzzled by Mary’s whimsical behavior that evening,

    why.

    dinner, Leanne sat next to Mary,

    for a while before deciding to

    had the driver who brought her

    to come in from the cold wind, but she refused, waving until the car

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